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[QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 5698843, member: 6798"]
Or, Maliq told Mike/Donna he was staying, DUKE CALLS HIM, and then a couple weeks later he is in the portal. Is that not a distinct possibility?? I have no idea how you can definitively say "the reversal doesn't happen" due to him not being valued, when we are talking about an opportunity to leave a non-tourney team and play on one of the very best teams in the country.

I am in agreement that Autry is horrible with carving out appropriate roles for his players and assigning more responsibility for his better players. He is horrible at a lot of things. But Maliq was not in a bad place here because we were giving him some kind of reduced role and disregarding his value. He was in a bad place here because the team as a whole/staff was bad! It's not like he was given the Kadary treatment and had some clearly inferior player taking his minutes. He played 30 a game for us. Maliq didn't leave because it wasn't 35-40.

Maybe you are right and NIL was not a factor (personally I doubt it), but Duke being elite/stacked and us being bad was absolutely a factor. More guys would leave those teams you mentioned if they were bad teams and they got an offer from an elite one, even if they were starters playing major minutes/having key roles.
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